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THE AUSTIN PAPERS,
CHARACTER CERTIFICATE : J OIIN LITTLE
.The bearer J\fr. John Little of "Westmoreland County in the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania about to remove down the River to the Province of Texas wishes a certificate of his Character etc I the subscriber do hereby certify that I have known said John Little for more than twenty years and know him to be an, honest, sober, orderly Citizen April 6 th 1822
ANDREW Booos [Rubric]
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
I James R. Butler Prothonotary of the Courts of Common pleas in and for the County of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania Do hereby Certify that I am intimately acquainted with Andrw Boggs, who has in his own proper handwriting given the above certificate and subscribed his name thereto, That he is a man of strict truth and integrity, to all whose certificates and acts faith and credit are due. • In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Pittsburgh this tenth day of Ap9l in the year of our lord Eighteen hundred twenty two - and of the sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America, the forty sixth. • JAMES R. BUTLER. ProthJ!·
MARIA AUSTIN TO AUSTIN 1
·Hazel run Aprill the 10-1822 I am happy in meetirrg with So good an opportunity as now pre- sents by V. Ally-of writing to my dear absent Sons and to tell them how very anxious I am to hear from them I had flatterd myself I should ha VP, had that pleasure before this time by the return of some of the Gentlem 0 that went to texas in the fall and winter Some of whome promisscd to call on us, nothing, except the pleasure of Em- braceing my dear Sons-could give me So much Sattisfaction as that of seeing those who have visited your Colony and conversed with you boath, every incident related by those who had Seen you, would be Interesting to your anxious mother-the rage :for emigrution still continues and a great number of famalys boath.from this State and the Ill[inois] are prepareing for Texas without going to view the country-a number of letters addressed to you from all quarters has been taken out of the office by Mr Brian all of which he has o.nswerd we theirefore think it not necessary to forward them to
. • Original in posacsslon of Mrs. Emmett L. Perr7.
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